Card. Müller: Poland owes Catholic religion to its historical existence and cultural identity

Anyone who today, in the name of the neoatheistic cultural revolution, believes that he must modernise Poland through culture, cuts Poland off from its Christian roots," said the cardinals. Gerhard Müller in a homily during the Holy Mass as part of the Women's Pilgrimage to Our woman of Bakers.

Card. Müller said that “political rulers and ideological elites rejected Christ, condemned and mocked and besides condemned to a terrible death on the cross.” – We Christians do not respond to mockery of our faith, social marginalization, and frequently bloody persecution with the same immoral means. We do not repay evil for evil; like Jesus, we conquer evil with good. The situation in the planet will not improve if we proceed to turn on a spiral of violence, malice, lies and hatred. We owe salvation to the forgiveness of our sins by the eternal boy of God, who was crucified and resurrected He said. – If God were to appear in the planet in the earthly power and glory, mass and elite, they would lie at His feet and give Him the kind of personality worship we are accustomed to from totalitarian leaders. But God does not want praise, but helps us in the freedom of religion and the power of hope that comes actual in love – he added.

He pointed out that "faithful standing under Jesus' cross, not cowardly escaping, is what makes a actual Christian." – On the cross of Jesus and in the light of his resurrection, God not only gives us forgiveness of sins and eternal life. He besides shows us peculiar charisms of women or, as Pope John Paul II said, spiritual genius of women said Cardinal Müller. Men failed and had to learn that they were gaining nothing from God through their greater physical strength, but that they were all due to His grace. – he continued. Among those who failed, he pointed out the apostles Judas and Peter. – Only the women of Jesus ’ closest ellipse followed him to Calvary. And there is His parent Mary, who stood under the cross and entrusted the full Church with her maternal care in the individual of her beloved disciple He stressed.

He recalled that “in Mary we see the perfect of all man, but besides of women in a peculiar way. God gave women's nature a greater strength of opposition in suffering, a more beautiful depth of head and graceful lightness in trusting God. In Mary we see how these natural gifts are strengthened by grace."

At the same time, he pointed out the importance of Catholic Marian piety, which he expressed "is immune to all kinds of false allegations, especially present from anti-Christian sex ideology". – The natural sex in being a man or a female is not a social construct, but an expression of God's wisdom, which gives a man a large chance to become a father and behave like a father to others, just as a female has the chance to become the parent of her children and perfect her character in a truly feminine and motherly behavior. Even if men and women do not marry, and so do not become physical fathers and mothers, they fulfill their mission precisely in that, for example, a priest cares for the good and salvation of his faithful, not as an official, but as a spiritual father – he said.

He pointed to the historical relation of Catholic religion with Poland: “Catholic Poland especially honors Mary as Queen of Poland. This title means that Poland owes its historical existence, its cultural identity and its peculiar function in Europe of Catholic faith, which has found its brightest expression in the Virgin Mary, parent of God." – Without Catholic faith, Poland would vanish from the map and past due to the self-will of secular rulers. For 123 years the country was divided and its language threatened by plans for Germanization and rusification. After the resurrection of Poland as a sovereign state in 1918, its nation and country were again threatened in their existence by the 2 most bloodthirsty atheistic dictatorships and hated primarily as a Catholic fortress in east Europe. And anyone who today, in the name of the neoatheistic cultural revolution, believes that he must modernize Poland with culture, cuts Poland off from its Christian roots. And a tree without roots produces only inedible fruit, and then does not produce it at all He said.

Source: KAI